Renting to students: Sink grid drains?

[Genny Li]

I'm re-staining and painting the cabinets in my student rental and switching out the sink counter (23-year-old white formica with curling iron burns and steel sinks with lots of repaired chips and discoloration) for Swanstone.  All of the sinks currently have broken or missing stopper mechanisms.  Should I put in new grid sink drains (which have no stoppers) when I replace the faucets?  I figure if they are desperate to stopper the sink, they can buy their own flat sink stopper, but otherwise, I have reduced possible failure points by one by making it less likely for hair and miscellaneous things to go down the sink.  How well do these work on hair, BTW? 

[Joe Splitrock]

I have put this in a couple properties and no complaints. They do not stop all the hair, but prevent issues with things like toothpaste caps. Removing the sink trap to clean out hair is no big deal. Getting rid of stoppers is helpful because they generally just break. That being said on the last couple properties I got faucets with pop up stoppers. You push them down to close and open. No more pull rod at the faucet. They work great too.